Few things in business and finance get hearts racing like a multi-billion euro deal. In just the past week there's been intense scrutiny of EADS possibly tying the knot with Britain's BAE in a 35-billion-euro merger. So have executives caught the "merger bug"? Markus Karlsson asks Laurence Capron, a professor of strategy at INSEAD in France and co-author of the book "Build, Borrow or Buy - Solving the Growth Dilemma".

He joined FRANCE 24 in 2006 to anchor the morning show and also worked as a reporter on news stories. He has moderated debates at the World Economic Forum in Davos and now hosts The Business Interview.